Devoted Quotes
515 quotes by 458 authors
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When we are devoted to the development of kindness, it becomes our ready response, so that reacting from compassion, from caring, is not a question…
— Sharon Salzberg
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Spaces devoted to Hannibal Lecter’s earliest years differ from the other archives in being incomplete. Some are static scenes, fragmentary, like painted attic shards held…
— Thomas Harris
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However, to modify a habit, you must decide to change it. You must consiously accept the hard work of identifying the cues and rewards that…
— Charles Duhigg
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I realized that the future of aviation, to which I had devoted so much of my life, depended less on the perfection of aircraft than…
— Charles Lindbergh
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My life has been devoted to arms, yet I look upon war at all times, and under all circumstances, as a national calamity to be…
— Zachary Taylor
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Oh, how much mercy have I received the year past! How often has God caused His goodness to pass before me! And how poorly have…
— David Brainerd
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Here is Theodore Roosevelt with all his faults and with all his strengths—the devoted family man, the passionate game hunter, the astute politician, the frustrated…
— David Herbert Donald
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I should like to say that I am as proud of my Chinese heritage and background as I am devoted to modern science, a part…
— Chen-Ning Yang
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Melissa McCarthy (Bridesmaids) is a gimmick comedian who has devoted her short career to being obese and obnoxious with equal success.
— Rex Reed
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Moreover, the sciences are monuments devoted to the public good; each citizen owes to them a tribute proportional to his talents. While the great men,…
— Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
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My "thinking" time was devoted mainly to activities that were essentially clerical or mechanical: searching, calculating, plotting, transforming, determining the logical or dynamic consequences of…
— J. C. R. Licklider
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The man does not live who is more devoted to peace than I am. None who would do more to preserve it.
— Abraham Lincoln
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God stands ready to allocate his power to all who are radically dependent on Him and radically devoted to making much of Him.
— David Platt
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In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control, and those dedicated to the goals the bureaucracy…
— Jerry Pournelle
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Were man to devote as much time and energy to himself as he has devoted to that which man has produced, what astounding and unbelievable…
— Joseph Pilates
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God takes full responsibility for the life wholly devoted to Him.
— Charles Stanley
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David Shire and I have been happily married for 21 years! We have a 12-year-old son. David is a genius. He writes the most magnificent…
— Didi
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We were constantly hearing it repeated, that we must never again look upon ourselves as our own; but must remember, that we were solemnly and…
— Maria Monk
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Now that practical skills have developed enough to provide adequately for material needs, one of these sciences which are not devoted to utilitarian ends [mathematics]…
— Aristotle
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The selfishness of an age that has devoted itself to the mere cult of pleasure has tainted the whole human race with an error that…
— Thomas Merton
Who Wrote These Devoted Quotes
458 authors contributed a total of 515 Devoted Quotes, led by these top contributors: